Sheila Weller tells the intertwined stories of Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour, three journalists who broke into television news’ once all-male newsroom hierarchy. Drawing on interviews with colleagues and intimates going back to childhood, Weller traces the personal struggles and singular talents that carried each woman to the top of the industry.
Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Sawyer worked her way from the first female correspondent on 60 Minutes to anchoring ABC World News. Couric and Amanpour followed very different paths to their own network milestones. Together their stories chart the uneven, still unfinished rise of women in TV news.
Published 2014
496 pages
$14.00